Subject Re: Metric conversion From Tom <IHaveNoEmail@ddress> Date Sun, 26 Mar 2023 08:06:17 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 3/26/23 4:23 AM, Mervyn Bick wrote: > On 2023/03/25 22:16, Tom wrote: > >> Too late Mervyn. That is exactly how I went about figuring out what I >> wanted. I did spend a bit of time scratching my head about why the >> startup window with metric of characters with a height of 16 and a >> width of 40 could possibly be taller than it was wide when ,to my eye, >> the opposite was true. I made the assumption that both dimensions >> would have the same conversion factor. My error. >> >> If anyone might have use for it ... >> >> multiply a character metric object's width by 7 to get pixel width >> >> multiply a character metric object's height by 22 to get pixel height >> >> Thanks for your response. > > As Richard has pointed out, those values are only valid where the form's > scaleFontName property is set to Arial and the scaleFontSize is set to 10. > > How are you going to use the values now that you have them? > > Mervyn. > > * Hi Mervyn, As Romain would say :-) Still working on that ... Tom